These images have been used, for example, to deter women from terminating their pregnancies in anti-abortion media such as the film The Silent Scream, at interactive mall kiosks like Truth Booth’s A Window to the Womb, and on websites such as National Right to Life, Pro-Life Action League,, and the Heritage House 76. Fetal images, though, are neither self-explanatory nor universally recognized and have become “sites of struggle for meaning” (Perlmutter 22), meaning that this article will attempt to explore by arguing that ultrasound visualization is a complex and transformative act.įor abortion opponents, prenatal ultrasound images offer a “definitive declaration that these pictures tell one story and unveil one truth-that life begins at the moment of conception” (Boucher 9). These procedures allow doctors to identify potential birth defects and maternal dangers without imposing risks upon the mother or the viability of the embryo or fetus. In the past fifty years, medical advances have allowed doctors to view human embryos (less than ten weeks’ gestation) and fetuses (after ten weeks’ gestation) via prenatal ultrasound technology (“ Fetal Development”).
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